Palm Oil Diaspora
Palm Oil Diaspora

Author: Case Watkins

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1108808298

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An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

The Yellow Demon of Fever
The Yellow Demon of Fever

Author: Manuel Barcia

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0300252013

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A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.